Part of:

• Collection: Die gläserne Kette collection, 1911-1977
•    Series: Carl Krayl, 1918-1945

People:

• O.M. Ungers (collector)
• Carl Krayl (creator)
• Carl Krayl (architect)
• Die gläserne Kette (archive creator)

Title:

Carl Krayl

Date:

1918-1945

Level of archival description:
series

Extent and medium:

• 18 drawings
  11 photographic material
  8 textual records

Scope and content:
Series documents the contribution of architect Carl Krayl to the correspondence circle of Die gläserne Kette, with Krayl writing under the pseudonym Anfang.
Born in 1890 in Weinsberg, Germany, Krayl worked on building sites between 1906 to 1909 in preparation for the architectural studies he would undertake from 1910 to 1912 at the Kunstgewerbeschule and the Polytechnikum at Stuttgart. He was employed as a military architect during the First World War and was stationed at Ingolstatd. After the war, Krayl joinded the Arbeitsrat für Kunst lead by Bruno Taut. Between 1919 to 1921 he contributed to "Frühlich", a magazine published by Taut which featured works by some members of Die Gläserne Kette. Krayl joined Bruno Taut in the city architecture department at Magdeburg. From 1923, he worked independently and executed private and public architectural projects. During the Nazi regime he worked as a draftsman for the German State Railway from 1938 to 1946. He died in 1946 in Werder an der Havel, Germany. (Source: Ian Boyd Whyte, Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982)
The series comprises part of Carl Krayl's correspondence to the Die gläserne Kette circle, along with related drawings and photographs.

Reference number:

AP162.S5

Arrangement:
The original order of these materials was not discernable when they arrived at CCA.

Contains:

• DR1988:0015:001-029, Material from Carl Krayl mostly for Die gläserne Kette, circa 1918-1945